Losing Bank contractors fail to win innovation cash

摘要

London Underground says Dragados' station upgrade bid"hangs together" on its own. None of the innovative ideas put forward by firms bidding for London Underground's (LU's) ￡625M Bank station capacity upgrade are to be bought by the Tube operator, NCE can reveal. Four bid teams each spent upwards of ￡2M tendering the complex station rebuild job in the belief that they were to be reimbursed for innovative ideas put forward as part of the process. The project will create a new ticket hall at surface level and includes the diversion of around 570m of the southbound Northern Line running tunnel plus the formation of a new southbound platform.